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Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of 35 U.S.C. 102 that form the basis for the rejections under this section made in this Office action:
A person shall be entitled to a patent unless –
(a)(1) the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale, or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claim(s) 1 and 6 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Moradian et al. U.S. PGPub 2022/0334569 (hereinafter “Moradian”).
Regarding claims 1 and 6, Moradian discloses a manufacturing site integrated management method for root industry, which is performed by a server, comprising: generating standard data (e.g. data output by machine learning model) by repeatedly learning big data (e.g. training data) based on root industry (e.g. ¶5, 28, 33-35, 38-39, 44, 57 and 65-74; Fig. 1); receiving manufacturing site data (e.g. sensed/measured data) for a manufacturing site, analyzing the received manufacturing site data, and generating manufacturing analysis data (e.g. ¶5, 28, 33-35, 38-39, 44, 57 and 65-74; Fig. 1); and generating manufacturing management data (e.g. optimized/adjusted settings for optimal eco-efficiency) using the manufacturing analysis data on the basis of the standard data (e.g. ¶5, 28, 33-35, 57 and 65-74), wherein the generating of the manufacturing management data includes extracting energy usage and carbon emissions (e.g. ¶18-19) using the manufacturing analysis data to measure an actual production volume of a product (i.e. wafer) (e.g. ¶18-19) and an actual lifetime (i.e. life-cycle) of an apparatus (e.g. ¶31, 62 and 103) and generate management measurement data (e.g. ¶18-19, 31, 62 and 103), and analyzing the management measurement data to estimate an estimated production volume of the product and an estimated lifetime (i.e. estimated life time duration) of the apparatus for remaining lifetime excluding the actual lifetime on the basis of a total lifetime of the apparatus and generate management estimation data using data that matches the standard data (e.g. ¶62-63).
Regarding claim 6, Moradian discloses a manufacturing site integrated management system for root industry, comprising: a site control device that is placed at a manufacturing site and configured to generate manufacturing site data for the manufacturing site (e.g. ¶5, 28, 33-35, 38-39, 44, 57 and 65-74; Fig. 1); and a management server configured to generate manufacturing analysis data by comparing and analyzing the manufacturing site data, and generate manufacturing management data using the manufacturing analysis data on the basis of standard data (e.g. ¶5, 28, 33-35, 38-39, 44, 57 and 65-74; Fig. 1), wherein the management server extracts energy usage and carbon emissions (e.g. ¶18-19) using the manufacturing analysis data and measures a production volume of a product (e.g. ¶18-19) and a lifetime (i.e. life-cycle) of an apparatus (e.g. ¶31, 62 and 103) to generate management measurement data (e.g. ¶18-19, 31, 62 and 103), and analyzes the management measurement data and estimates an estimated production volume of the product and an estimated lifetime of the apparatus for remaining lifetime excluding the actual lifetime on the basis of a total lifetime of the apparatus to generate management estimation data using data that matches the standard data (e.g. ¶62-63).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2-5 are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Conclusion
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February 5, 2026
/CHARLES R KASENGE/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2116
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